Great Depression – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Sun, 07 Sep 2025 17:47:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Great Depression – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 Home Sales during the Great Depression https://brewminate.com/home-sales-during-the-great-depression/ Tue, 02 Nov 2021 18:11:28 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=163701 Plenty of information about the housing market during the Depression has been collected and is easily available. Sales

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]]> “To the Rescue of the Crops”: The Women’s Land Army during World War II https://brewminate.com/to-the-rescue-of-the-crops-the-womens-land-army-during-world-war-ii/ Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:02:34 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=150079 Throughout the wartime years, the need for workers in agriculture, as well as in manufacturing and the military,

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]]> Black Domestic Workers during the Great Depression https://brewminate.com/black-domestic-workers-during-the-great-depression/ Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:01:20 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=150071 The New Deal maintained racial hierarchies even as it aided African Americans through relief projects. By Dr. Phyllis

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]]> The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression https://brewminate.com/the-ordeal-of-herbert-hoover-and-the-great-depression/ Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:00:53 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=150060 Usually cast as a President defined by his failure to contain the Great Depression, Hoover’s story is far

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]]> Americans and Isolationism during the Great Depression of the 1930s https://brewminate.com/americans-and-isolationism-during-the-great-depression-of-the-1930s/ Wed, 23 Sep 2020 18:11:01 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=135924 A worldwide economic depression and domestic problems bolstered the idea that the U.S. should isolate itself from events

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]]> Causes and Consequences of the Great Depression https://brewminate.com/causes-and-consequences-of-the-great-depression/ Mon, 03 Aug 2020 16:05:36 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=132500 Many factors, including World War I and its aftermath, set the stage for this economic disaster. Factors Leading

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]]> New Deal Murals at Coit Tower: Meaningful Work for Depression-Era Artists https://brewminate.com/new-deal-murals-at-coit-tower-meaningful-work-for-depression-era-artists/ Wed, 20 May 2020 20:05:50 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=126060 The idea of such a tower was derided at first as an eyesore, but more “beautification” was still

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]]> World War II and American Visual Culture https://brewminate.com/post-depression-and-world-war-ii-american-visual-culture/ Wed, 20 May 2020 20:05:37 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=126037 Examining how the popular media documented the people and activities of the homefront and the battlefront. Originally published

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]]> The Great Depression: Farms and Cities in the 1930s https://brewminate.com/the-great-depression-farms-and-cities-in-the-1930s/ Mon, 13 Apr 2020 19:41:56 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=122324 By Tom MorainHistorian Introduction Farmers struggled with low prices all through the 1920s, but after 1929 things began

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]]> The New Deal in Chicago and the Midwest https://brewminate.com/the-new-deal-in-chicago-and-the-midwest/ Wed, 19 Jun 2019 17:47:51 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=100143 What did the New Deal look like in Chicago and the greater Illinois region? Who were its champions

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